Today we're highlighting Fourth Time's The Charm in the US. After the three painful attempts, the fourth time was amazing thanks to the guy she's still dating. If you want to tell your story, go to our submission form. You can find all our V-Card Diaries here.

A little about myself:

I'm a twenty-year-old female and a junior in college.

How I virginity:

Virginity to me is someone who has never had vaginal intercourse. Doesn't matter if their hymen broke before then due to sports or something, if a penis has not entered the vagina she's a virgin. Though I don't really like the term, I just like to think of it as 'have I or haven't I done this sexual act'.

Here's my story:

When I was fresh out of high school at seventeen I met a guy at a sword fighting club on the college campus I was a part of and he was pursuing his PhD at. He was really handsome, and always making me laugh. He knew I was underage though, so he said he wanted to be friends with me before we even considered dating. Six months of Friday and Saturday night hanging out, helping me with homework from my freshmen classes, hours upon hours of phone calls, and hundred thousands of texts later he officially asked me out on a date. About two weeks after that he kissed me, about darn time in my opinion!

A week after my birthday, I told him I didn't want to wait anymore. He told me that he didn't want to rush it or push me, and when it was right 'it' would happen. A week later we were making out on his couch and he gave me this sweet kiss before pulling me up and leading me to the bedroom. My heart was in my throat, all I had heard from my friends was 'it hurts, and it's not gonna be that great'.

He made it all about me, what made me feel good and not hurting me. He tried to gently push in, got decently far, and then it started to hurt. So he pulled out, and we satisfied ourselves in other sexual ways. I admit I was a bit disappointed he'd stopped, but he said he didn't want it to hurt. This happened two more times over the space of a month.

Finally, the fourth time, he slid in all the way with no pain at all and it was amazing. And still it was all about making it as wonderful for me as possible. I never regretted it, it was more exciting than awkward, and he did his best to show he cared (can't say we were in love at that point) for me.